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Jud 6:1-6.
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Jud 6:1-6.
THE ISRAELITES, FOR THEIR SINS, OPPRESSED BY MIDIAN.
1. and the Lord delivered them into the hand of Midian--Untaught by their former experiences, the Israelites again apostatized, and new sins were followed by fresh judgments. Midian had sustained a severe blow in the time of Moses
(Nu 31:1-18);
and the memory of that disaster, no doubt, inflamed their resentment against the Israelites. They were wandering herdsmen, called "children of the East," from their occupying the territory east of the Red Sea, contiguous to Moab. The destructive ravages they are described as at this time committing in the land of Israel are similar to those of the Bedouin Arabs, who harass the peaceful cultivators of the soil. Unless composition is made with them, they return annually at a certain season, when they carry off the grain, seize the cattle and other property; and even life itself is in jeopardy from the attacks of those prowling marauders. The vast horde of Midianites that overran Canaan made them the greatest scourge which had ever afflicted the Israelites.
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2. 在山上……凿洞穴——当然不是挖掘，因为这些洞穴早已存在，而是加以修整使之适于居住。
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2. made . . . dens . . . in the mountains and caves--not, of course, excavating them, for they were already, but making them fit for habitation.
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Jud 6:7-10.
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Jud 6:7-10.
一位先知责备他们。
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Jud 6:7-10.
A PROPHET REBUKES THEM.
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8. 耶和华差遣一位先知到以色列人那里——国难的咒诅，其因由被权威地追溯到他们的不忠。
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8. the Lord sent a prophet unto the children of Israel--The curse of the national calamity is authoritatively traced to their infidelity as the cause.
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Jud 6:11-16.
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Jud 6:11-16.
一位天使差遣基甸去拯救他们。
11. 耶和华的使者到了——他以一个旅客的装束和打扮出现
（士6:21），
坐在荫下稍享休息。他与人谈起当时最热门的话题——米甸人的严酷欺压，便开始劝基甸以其素负盛名的勇力为国效力。基甸起初回答时所用（希伯来文中）相当于「先生」的称呼，但后来却用通常用于神的称呼来称呼他。
橡树——希伯来文为「那棵橡树」——是日后闻名的树。
俄弗拉——玛拿西支派的一座城，在耶利哥以北约十六英里，属亚比以谢家族的地业
（书17:2）。
他儿子基甸在酒醡那里打麦子——这一细节有力地说明了公众所受的苦。他打的那一点点麦子（从他用木棍敲打而非照惯例用牛踹谷可知）、地点异常（在酒醡旁、树下、光秃秃的地上而非木板上，为的是避免声响）——这一切都显出百姓活在何等恐惧之中。
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Jud 6:11-16.
AN ANGEL SENDS GIDEON TO DELIVER THEM.
11. there came an angel of the Lord--He appeared in the character and equipments of a traveller
(Jud 6:21),
who sat down in the shade to enjoy a little refreshment and repose. Entering into conversation on the engrossing topic of the times, the grievous oppression of the Midianites, he began urging Gideon to exert his well-known prowess on behalf of his country. Gideon, in replying, addresses him at first in a style equivalent (in Hebrew) to "sir," but afterwards gives to him the name usually applied to God.
an oak--Hebrew, "the oak"--as famous in after-times.
Ophrah--a city in the tribe of Manasseh, about sixteen miles north of Jericho, in the district belonging to the family of Abiezer
(Jos 17:2).
his son Gideon threshed wheat by the wine-press--This incident tells emphatically the tale of public distress. The small quantity of grain he was threshing, indicated by his using a flail instead of the customary treading of cattle--the unusual place, near a wine-press, under a tree, and on the bare ground, not a wooden floor, for the prevention of noise--all these circumstances reveal the extreme dread in which the people were living.
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13. 耶和华若与我们同在，我们何至遭遇这一切事呢？——基甸这话显出他缺乏反思；因为神降在百姓身上的刑罚，恰恰表明祂与他们同在，并顾念他们。
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13. if the Lord be with us, why then is all this befallen us?--Gideon's language betrays want of reflection, for the very chastisements God had brought on His people showed His presence with, and His interest in, them.
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14-16. 耶和华观看他，说，你靠着你这能力去……不是我差遣你去的么？——这命令与应许使基甸明白访客的真实身份；但他像摩西一样，因谦卑，或因这使命之重大而退缩，推辞不肯承担。即便得了保证：在神的帮助下，他要胜过米甸人，如同胜过一人那样容易，他仍犹豫，巴不得更有把握地知道这使命真是出于神。他也在求一个凭据上与摩西相似；在两个事例中，正是因为在那样普遍腐败的时期，启示十分罕见，才使他们如此切望确知自己确是被天上的使者所差。这要求是合理的，也蒙了恩允
[士6:18]。
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14-16. the Lord looked upon him, and said, Go in this thy might . . . have not I sent thee?--The command and the promise made Gideon aware of the real character of his visitor; and yet like Moses, from a sense of humility, or a shrinking at the magnitude of the undertaking, he excused himself from entering on the enterprise. And even though assured that, with the divine aid, he would overcome the Midianites as easily as if they were but one man, he still hesitates and wishes to be better assured that the mission was really from God. He resembles Moses also in the desire for a sign; and in both cases it was the rarity of revelations in such periods of general corruption that made them so desirous of having the fullest conviction of being addressed by a heavenly messenger. The request was reasonable, and it was graciously granted
[Jud 6:18].
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Jud 6:17-32.
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Jud 6:17-32.
基甸的礼物被火焚尽。
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Jud 6:17-32.
GIDEON'S PRESENT CONSUMED BY FIRE.
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18. 求你不要离开这里，等我……将礼物带来——希伯来文为我的「素祭」；他的用意大概是借着访客是否享用这筵席，来验证对方是否超越常人。
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18. Depart not hence, I pray thee, until I . . . bring forth my present--Hebrew, my mincha, or "meat offering"; and his idea probably was to prove, by his visitor's partaking of the entertainment, whether or not he was more than man.
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19-23. 基甸进去，预备了一只山羊羔……肉放在篮子里，汤盛在锅里——（参见
创18:7的注释）。
肉看来是烤的，做法是切成小块，串在签子上，置于火前。汤是即时饮用的；另一样装在手提篮里，是为旅客日后预备的。烧尽这一切的奇妙火焰，以及那陌生人不是步行离去，而是如灵在火中消失，使基甸充满敬畏。每一个堕落的人想到神，因自觉不配而心中满是惧怕祂的震怒；这种感受又因古时普遍的信念——凡看见天使的人必立时死亡——而加重。基甸的祭物既蒙悦纳，表明他本人也蒙悦纳；但要恢复他的安慰与内心的平安，还需要神以某种不为人知的方式，给他一个明确的赐福保证。
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19-23. Gideon went in, and made ready a kid; . . . the flesh he put in a basket, and he put the broth in a pot--(See on
Ge 18:7).
The flesh seems to have been roasted, which is done by cutting it into kobab, that is, into small pieces, fixed on a skewer, and put before the fire. The broth was for immediate use; the other, brought in a hand-basket was intended to be a future supply to the traveller. The miraculous fire that consumed it and the vanishing of the stranger, not by walking, but as a spirit in the fire, filled Gideon with awe. A consciousness of demerit fills the heart of every fallen man at the thought of God, with fear of His wrath; and this feeling was increased by a belief prevalent in ancient times, that whoever saw an angel would forthwith die. The acceptance of Gideon's sacrifice betokened the acceptance of his person; but it required an express assurance of the divine blessing, given in some unknown manner, to restore his comfort and peace of mind.
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24-32. 当那夜耶和华对他说——这里所述基甸所从事的事，是在异象之后的那夜才开始的。
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24-32. it came to pass the same night, that the Lord said unto him--The transaction in which Gideon is here described as engaged was not entered on till the night after the vision.
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25. 取你父亲的……第二只牛——米甸人大概已使家中的牛群大减；或因基甸之父沉溺偶像，最好的牛已被养肥，专为事奉巴力之用；所以第二只牛是唯一剩下可献与神的。
拆毁你父亲为巴力所筑的坛——立在他自家地上，却是为城中众人公用而设。
砍下坛旁的木偶——是献给亚斯他录的。他在十名亲信仆人的帮助下，拆毁了一座坛，又在指定之处立起耶和华的坛；但因惧怕反对，这工必须在夜间暗中进行。次日城中大为骚动，誓要向行此事的基甸报仇。「他父亲约押平息众怒的方式，与以弗所的城吏相似。不过前者是将此事交与官长裁决；后者则交与那偶像之神自己」〔查尔默斯〕。
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25. Take thy father's . . . second bullock--The Midianites had probably reduced the family herd; or, as Gideon's father was addicted to idolatry, the best may have been fattened for the service of Baal; so that the second was the only remaining one fit for sacrifice to God.
throw down the altar of Baal that thy father hath--standing upon his ground, though kept for the common use of the townsmen.
cut down the grove that is by it--dedicated to Ashtaroth. With the aid of ten confidential servants he demolished the one altar and raised on the appointed spot the altar of the Lord; but, for fear of opposition, the work had to be done under cover of night. A violent commotion was excited next day, and vengeance vowed against Gideon as the perpetrator. "Joash, his father, quieted the mob in a manner similar to that of the town clerk of Ephesus. It was not for them to take the matter into their own hands. The one, however, made an appeal to the magistrate; the other to the idolatrous god himself" [CHALMERS].
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Jud 6:33-39.
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Jud 6:33-39。
那些兆头。
33. 米甸人……在耶斯列平原安营——米甸、亚玛力与邻族的联军渡过约旦河，要再犯迦南，在以斯德伦平原（古称耶斯列）扎营。约旦河谷南部地势很低，所以由南面的干河下到迦南既陡峭又难行。明白这一点，便可知米甸军从约旦河东，为何是从约旦河谷北面的干河进入迦南，正对耶斯列。
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Jud 6:33-39.
THE SIGNS.
33. all the Midianites . . . pitched in Jezreel--The confederated troops of Midian, Amalek, and their neighbors, crossing the Jordan to make a fresh inroad on Canaan, encamped in the plains of Esdraelon (anciently Jezreel). The southern part of the Ghor lies in a very low level, so that there is a steep and difficult descent into Canaan by the southern wadies. Keeping this in view, we see the reason why the Midianite army, from the east of Jordan, entered Canaan by the northern wadies of the Ghor, opposite Jezreel.
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34. 耶和华的灵降在基甸身上——在这突发的急难中蒙召出来为国家服役，他便在超然中得着与危险程度及处境艰难相称的智慧与精力。他的征召令得到邻近各支派的热烈响应。在冒险的事业临头之际，他寻求以神呼召他担任此重任的、更新的确据来坚固己心。羊毛的神迹极不寻常——尤其考虑到他那地所降露水之丰沛。神将神迹的形式倒转过来，奇妙地显出祂的忍耐与俯就。基甸自己似乎也意识到因他的犹豫和疑惑招致了神的不悦；但神宽容祂百姓的软弱。
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34. the Spirit of the Lord came upon Gideon--Called in this sudden emergency into the public service of his country, he was supernaturally endowed with wisdom and energy commensurate with the magnitude of the danger and the difficulties of his position. His summons to war was enthusiastically obeyed by all the neighboring tribes. On the eve of a perilous enterprise, he sought to fortify his mind with a fresh assurance of a divine call to the responsible office. The miracle of the fleece was a very remarkable one--especially, considering the copious dews that fall in his country. The divine patience and condescension were wonderfully manifested in reversing the form of the miracle. Gideon himself seems to have been conscious of incurring the displeasure of God by his hesitancy and doubts; but He bears with the infirmities of His people.
Jud 6:1-6.
以色列人因罪被米甸人欺压。
1. 耶和华把他们交在米甸人手里——以色列人没有从前次经历中学到功课，再度背道，新的罪便招来新的审判。米甸人在摩西时代曾遭受重创
（民31:1-18）；
那场灾祸的记忆，无疑加深了他们对以色列人的怨恨。他们是游牧的牧人，被称为「东方之人」，因其所居之地在红海以东，与摩押毗邻。这里描述他们此时在以色列地所造成的毁灭性蹂躏，与贝都因阿拉伯人骚扰太平农夫的情形相似。除非与之达成妥协，否则他们每年在固定季节返回，抢夺粮食，劫掠牲畜财物；甚至生命也会因这些四处游荡的劫匪的袭击而陷于危险。席卷迦南的米甸大军，使以色列人遭受了前所未有的最大祸患。